Occupation: Union Organizer Birth: May 1, 1837 Death: November 30, 1930
I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression..
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!.
I will tell the truth wherever I please..
I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser.
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair s….
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes..
I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are kill….
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not….
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!.
You must stand for free speech in the streets..
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!.
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must st….
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time..
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of ref….
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies..
My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We mus….
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!.
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts..
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.